Mary oliver poet official website

Poetry books are listed first, with UK editions at the bottom of the list.

Mary oliver website

Books of prose are listed second. Visit the photo gallery. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations. The poems on this site may not be used without permission. For more information view our re-use policy. Poetry Swan: Poems and Prose Poems Beacon Press, September "Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems.

Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we are of the world she captures here so vividly: the acorn that hides within it an entire tree; the wings of the swan like the stretching light of the river; the frogs singing in the shallows; the mockingbird dancing in air. Blue Horses Penguin, October At its heart, Blue Horses asks what it means to truly belong to this world, to live in it attuned to all its changes.

Humorous, gentle, and always honest, Oliver is a visionary of the natural world. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness—so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive —continue in Dream Work. She writes perceptively about grief and mortality, love and nature, and the spiritual sustenance she draws from their gifts. New and Selected Poems, Volume Two Beacon Press, New and Selected Poems, Volume Two , an anthology of forty-two new poems—an entire volume in itself—and sixty-nine poems hand-picked by Mary Oliver from six of her last eight books, is a major addition to a career in poetry that has spanned nearly five decades.

Now recognized as an unparalleled poet of the natural world, Mary Oliver writes with unmatched dexterity and a profound appreciation for the divergence and convergence of all living things. The package is shrink-wrapped so that the elegant clothbound audiobook can takes its place on the poetry shelf. It also includes a fifteen-page booklet with an original essay, "Performance Note," photos of the author at Blackwater Pond, and a full listing of the poems and their sources.